Caroline Oliver

Retirement Migration

Paradoxes of Ageing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a grounded and theoretically robust analysis of retiring abroad as a modern day rite of passage. Clearly and interestingly written, this book pertains to a topic that cuts across a number of pertinent contemporary themes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780415372718
• ISBN-10: 0415372712
• Artikelnr.: 22517124

Autorenporträt

Caroline Oliver is currently a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, and has held lecturing posts in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Universities of Hull and Newcastle-upon Tyne, UK

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Flirting with Freedom 2. Cultural Contexts: Positive
Ageing, Migration and Place 3. Location, Location, Location: Retiring in
Spain 4. The Time of our Lives: Temporality and the Life Course 5. Does Age
Matter?: Positive Ageing and Place 6. Community and the Individual in
Migrants' Spain 7. Cultural Identities, Ageing and Death 8. Conclusion:
Paradoxes of Ageing in Retirement Migration